Does it make sense to stand up against animal abuse if you eat meat ?

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In my opinion, Americans shoudln't eat meat unless they go hunting for it. Animals which are hunted have better lives than those in factory farms. I would say that standing against animal abuse and hunting for meat is fine.

Not really. If you see animals actually being abused, or pics/videos of that, you see the actual animal being abused, usually while alive. But It’s too easy to eat the burger because it doesn’t look like the actual animal anymore. It came packaged in plastic from the supermarket or wrapped in a McDonald’s wrapper let’s say.So people don’t really think about it as much because it doesn’t resemble the whole living animal anymore. Just a part of it. Not alive anymore.But if people had to slaughter the animal themselves that they were going to eat the meat of, it might make them think twice about eating them. It’s all about appearances sometimes.So some people don’t have a problem sticking up for animal abuse but they go ahead and eat those burgers because it doesn’t seem directly connected with the suffering of an animal anymore.But it IS the product of that suffering, Because most methods of slaughtering animals involve physical pain and emotional trauma to the Animal as far as I know

Yes. Animal abuse isn't restricted to eating meat it's more generally about treating all animals with kindness and respect. Ultimately everything that lives dies but we can do our best to ensure that animals are able to live the best life they can

Rather than focusing on the human diet it's far more effective to stop squandering resources and polluting the earth.

You can request people not to eat meat but in nature it is not like that. The food for lions and tigers and all other carnivorous animals is herbivorous animals. God had made it. You know very well how they are killed by carnivorous animals and how they suffer before they die. Human beings reduce this pain and sufferings before they kill the animals for their food. Human beings and carnivorous animals are not same. We can use our mind and do something good. But can we destroy all creatures which live by eating other creatures on this earth. I guess that scientists would say that that would be a disaster. I don't remember exactly but I guess I have read something like that.

It makes sense to me. The meat I eat isn't alive, and is therefore incapable of suffering. I would rejoice if all the profit-driven meat factories were shut down. I think people should hunt, raise their own meat, or barter with small meat producers that are devoted to humane ethics. Healthier too.

Absolutely. I grew up around farmers and ranchers, and none of them would inflict or allow mistreatment of their animals. Animals to them are products, and they want contented livestock that eat and grow or give milk. I've been trained from a child to oppose animal cruelty, and have never met anyone in the industry that promoted or practiced it.